Janet R. James

For K-12 Teachers

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Bilingual Education
Bureau of Bilingual/ESL Education
The Bilingual Education Act (N.J.S.A. 18A:35-15 and P.L. 1974, c.197) was enacted to ensure that students of limited English proficiency (LEP), are provided instruction in their native language in order to develop academic skills while acquiring English language skills. The responsibility of the office is to provide assistance to local districts in designing and implementing educational programs that will meet the needs of limited English proficient students and to assure compliance with state and federal regulations. Such assistance is provided by formal and informal technical assistance, regional workshops, conferences and publications.

Bogglesworld  - An ESL teacher resource site for elementary and middle school levels with reprintable materials available



California Department of Education - English Learners Resources

OELA's National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction Educational Programs (NCELA) collects, analyzes, synthesizes and disseminates information about language instruction educational programs for English language learners and related programs. It is funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement & Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students (OELA) under Title III of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001.







Celebrating Hispanic Heritage in America  http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/hispanic/index.htm

The Character Education Partnership (CEP) is a nonpartisan coalition of organizations and individuals dedicated to developing moral character and civic virtue in our nation's youth as one means of creating a more compassionate and responsible society.
 

http://www.humboldt.edu/~tha1/hunter-eei.html
http://search.officeupdate.microsoft.com/TemplateGallery/ct149.asp
http://www.lm.havre.k12.mt.us/teachertools/printableforms.html
http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/ho.html

http://www.state.nj.us/njded/frameworks/arts/
http://www.sfskids.org/templates/home.asp?pageid=1
http://www.songsforteaching.com/
http://nga.gov/
http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/arteducation.htm
http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/music/k-12music/

http://www.state.nj.us/njded/frameworks/chpe/
http://etc.usf.edu/pe/profesal.htm
 

CRITICAL THINKING
http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/cogsys/critthnk.html Critical thinking is an important issue in education today

http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic69.htm  Benjamin Bloom (1956) developed a classification of levels of intellectual behavior in learning. This taxonomy contained three overlapping domains: the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective. Within the cognitive domain, he identified six levels: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. These domains and levels are still useful today as you develop the critical thinking skills of your students.

Critical thinking involves logical thinking and reasoning including skills such as comparison, classification, sequencing, cause/effect, patterning, webbing, analogies, deductive and inductive reasoning, forecasting, planning, hyphothesizing, and critquing.

 While critical thinking can be thought of as more left-brain and creative thinking more right brain, they both involve "thinking." When we talk about HOTS "higher-order thinking skills" we're concentrating on the top three levels of Bloom's Taxonomy: analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

 http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/faculty/pedagogies/thinking.shtml  Teaching critical thinking in writing

 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JTE/jte-v7n1/gokhale.jte-v7n1.html Collaborative learning enhances critical thinking

 http://www.nwlink.com/%7Edonclark/hrd/bloom.html  Blooms Taxonomy & Learning Domains (Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor)

PROBLEM BASED LEARNING (PBL)
Problem Based Learning
An instructional method that uses complex, real-life problems (which usually become projects) to motivate learning and provide learning
experiences: the projects are authentic, yet adhere to a curricular framework.  Project-based learning is a model for classroom activity
that shifts away from the classroom practices of short, isolated, teacher-centered lessons and instead emphasizes learning activities that
are long-term, inter-disciplinary, student-centered, and integrated with real world practices.
www.gsn.org/web  A Tutorial for Collaborative Project-Based Learning
http://pblchecklist.4teachers.org/  A Checklist for PBL Projects 
www.iearn.org/projects/index.html  Sample Projects
www.coollessons.org/coolunits.htm Sample PBL Lessons

Levels of Technology Integration (LOTI) http://www.dcet.k12.de.us/instructional/loti/

National Institute For Literacy (NIFL)
The National Institute for Literacy's activities to strengthen literacy across the lifespan are authorized by the U.S. Congress under two laws, the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA) in the Workforce Investment Act and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). The AEFLA directs the Institute to provide national leadership regarding literacy, coordinate literacy services and policy, and serve as a national resource for adult education and literacy programs. The NCLB law directs the Institute to disseminate information on scientifically based reading research pertaining to children, youth, and adults as well as information about development and implementation of classroom reading programs based on the research

Language Arts Printables  Printable puzzles, tests, prep, review, and more

http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/teachers/contentliteracy/ a variety of sites that support Content Literacy

Information Literacy in the Digital Age
American Association of School Librarians
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslindex.htm

Syracuse University's Center for Digital Literacy
http://digital-literacy.syr.edu

The Lexile Framework for Reading is a scientific approach to reading measurement that matches readers to text. The Lexile Framework measures both reader ability and text difficulty on the same scale, called the Lexile scale. This approach allows educators to manage reading comprehension and encourage reader progress using Lexile measures and a broad range of Lexile products, tools and services.

http://www.readplease.com/
http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/res/index.html
http://www.literacy.uconn.edu/littech.htm
http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/classrooms/patti/2-3/teacher/resources/reciprocal.html Reciprocal Teaching
http://ed-web3.educ.msu.edu/literacy/stuwork/recip.htm  Reciprocal Teaching
http://www.readingrockets.org/
http://toread.com/
http://www.starfall.com/
http://www.nj.gov/njded/literacy/
http://www.allamericareads.org/lessonplan/strategies.htm
http://www.readingrecovery.org/
http://orton-gillingham.com/index.asp
http://www.wilsonlanguage.com/
http://www.penguinputnam.com/static/packages/us/yreaders/guysread/ Literacy to Connect Boys With Books
 

http://www.proteacher.com/070037.shtml
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-bridwell-norman.asp
http://www.seuss.org/
http://www.robertmunsch.com/
http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~aec8484/biography.html
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/taylor.htm
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/  Grammar & Writing
http://www.literacy.uconn.edu/littech.htm
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/staff/D.J.Wray/

 

http://pirate.shu.edu/~jamesjan/JAS/lessons.html
 http://www.knowledgebox.com/teachers/index.jsp
 http://www.eduscapes.com/
  http://www.allamericareads.org/lessonplan/strategies.htm
 http://www.enhancelearning.ca/differentiating.html
 http://teachers.net/lessons/
 http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/
  http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr218.shtml Scaffolding Lessons for Student Success
 http://www.21learn.org/arch/articles/brown_seely.html Cognitive apprenticeship
 http://www.state.nj.us/njded/frameworks/ Search NJCCCS Frameworks by topic
   http://www.teachersfirst.com/
 http://teacher.scholastic.com/  Scholastic Teacher Resources for What You're Teaching Now
  http://schoolweb.missouri.edu/arcadia.k12.mo.us/petsel/page21/pptconnect.html
 http://www.educationworld.com/
 http://www.state.nj.us/njded/clear/
 

The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
A K-12 Teacher Math and Science Center - As of September 2005 this site is no longer federally funded and now requires a fee with membership. 
It is an excellent resource.
Mega-Mathematics
Resources for teachers and students collected at
Los Alamos National Lab.

Professional Development
http://www.nsdc.org/  National Council of Staff Development
http://www.nsdc.org/library/publications/jsd/janas193.cfm  article on Change Processes
http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/res/index.html
http://ed-web3.educ.msu.edu/literacy/stuwork/recip.htm
http://www.nj.gov/njded/profdev/  NJDOE Professional Development
http://facultyweb.cortland.edu/~ANDERSMD/VYG/VYG.HTML Vygotsky & Scaffolding of Instruction

 

Assessment tools -  A very complete resource for one-stop-shopping for NCLB, high stakes testing, and all of their implications.  It's important to remember tests are a great learning tool. You should have students evaluate their returned classroom tests to see where they need work. Also, look at last year's standardized test scores and note any relationships to your curriculum. http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/assessment.html

Madeline Hunter – Elements of Effective Instruction

Online Gradebook and Record Keeping

Forms for Teacher Use

Rubric & Evaluation Resources

Microsoft Template Gallery Scroll down and click on the hyperlink entitled “Education”

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematic and Science Education (ENC)
ENC Online is a K-12 math and science teacher center. Visit Classroom Calendar, Digital Dozen, ENC Focus, or Lessons & Activities

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
NASA is charting a bold new course into the cosmos, a journey that will take humans back to the Moon, and eventually to Mars and beyond.  Come and explore the journey with them.    

  Steven’s Institute of Technology
Excellent interactive science projects, many using real-time data created by and to be used by K-12 classes. http://www.k12science.org/

Living Jewels - bug enthusiasts will enjoy the enthralling gallery of beetle photos on the Living Jewels Web site and MicroAngela's  eerie close-ups of common insects taken with an electron microscope.

http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/
http://www.project2061.org/
http://education.nasa.gov/home/index.html
http://www.childrensmuseum.org/kids/games.htm  Great games for students & families incorporating science
http://www.exploratorium.edu/  More great games & activities for students and families
http://www.sln.org/ Science Learning Network
http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/  Yucky Science Discovery site for kids
http://www.sciencemonster.com/   Science Monster    

Section 504 and IDEA: Similarities & Differences  http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/legal_legislative/edlaw504.html

Differentiated Instruction  http://www.frsd.k12.nj.us/rfmslibrarylab/di/differentiated_instruction.htm

http://www.nj.gov/njded/specialed/
http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/legal_legislative/edlaw504.html
http://www.ncld.org/
http://seriweb.com/
http://edworkforce.house.gov/issues/107th/endgamekit/fsspecialed.htm
http://www.nj.gov/njded/specialed/info/nclb_idea.shtml
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osers/index.html?src=mr
http://www.ldonline.org/
http://www.schoolpsychology.net/

Inclusive Technology 
Free downloads for software directed at severe to profound disabilities.

free downloads for software directed at severe to profound disabilities...

http://surfaquarium.com/IT/content/generalsocialstudies.htm  INNOVATIVE TEACHING - Top General Social Studies Resources Online
http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/  Virtual Field Trips from a Utah educational web site.
http://www.splcenter.org/center/tt/teach.jsp  Teaching Tolerance - In 1991, Teaching Tolerance began supporting the efforts of K-12 teachers and other educators to promote respect for differences and an appreciation of diversity.
www.njsbf.org Law - The place for New Jersey's students, teachers and parents to learn about law and their legal rights.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html  The CIA World Fact Book
http://www.usdoj.gov/kidspage/ Justice for Kids & Youth - sponsored by the US Dept of Justice
http://www.historyplace.com/  The History Place - The History Place is a private, independent, Internet-only publication based in the Boston area that is not affiliated with any political group or organization. The Web site presents a fact-based, common sense approach in the presentation of the history of humanity, with great care given to accuracy.
http://www.multied.com/  History Central - from 5500 BC to the present, with an emphasis on American history.
http://geography.about.com/cs/blankoutlinemaps  Blank Outline Maps
http://www.maps.com/games/  Map Games & Quizzes
http://www.myhero.com/home.asp  MY HERO - The MY HERO web site hosts thousands of stories of remarkable individuals written by children and adults alike. These stories serve to remind us that we all have the potential to overcome great obstacles and achieve our dreams by following in the footsteps of our heroes. 
MY HERO invites you, your family, school or organization to take part in this interactive web project. By publicly honoring your hero on this award-winning site
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/teachers/contentliteracy/ sites that support Content Literacy

http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Classroom/Social_Studies/Multicultural/Multicultural.html   Multicultural

Co-nect 
Used as a national Whole School Reform model
Co-nect is a leading provider of data-driven professional development that helps districts and schools improve the quality of instruction and accelerate student achievement. Together with administration and faculty, our national staff of education consultants focuses on driving student achievement, using research-based strategies that work

Global Schoolhouse
Projects Registry
Clearinghouse for more than 2000 online collaborative projects, organized by topic, grade, and project date. Find partners or join projects from around the globe.

 
International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
ISTE is a nonprofit professional organization with a worldwide membership of leaders and potential leaders in educational technology. We are dedicated to providing leadership and service to improve teaching and learning by advancing the effective use of technology in K–12 education and teacher education. We provide our members with information, networking opportunities, and guidance as they face the challenge of incorporating computers, the Internet, and other new technologies into their schools.

Home of the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS), the Center for Applied Research in Education Technology (CARET), and the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC), ISTE meets its mission through knowledge generation, professional development, and advocacy
 

New Jersey Association of Edcuational Technology (NJAET)
NJAET is a group of over 700 educators (teachers, computer coordinators, administrators, consultants, etc.) who are working to promote the use of technology in education.
 

EVALUATING WEB RESOURCES
http://www.mhhe.com/mayfieldpub/webtutor/judging.htm  simple steps to verify reliability of a web site 
http://www.cookiecentral.com Learn all about "cookies" and the efforts to maintain privacy rights while accommodating both the consumer and the seller. 

PPTs
http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com/powerpointmenu.htm   PPT tutorial for adding a Menu to your PPT

Web Building Resources for FrontPage

http://www.2learn.ca/evaluating/div4netscheck2.html Evaluating Web Sites
 http://www.freebuttons.com/index.php free web buttons
 http://www.classicalarchives.com/  midi files/ classical music
http://www.kunstderfuge.com/  classical music midis 
http://midi.midisite.co.uk/cgi-bin/midi/search.pl?maxhit=100&terms=dance  Midi Site 
http://midi.midisite.co.uk/midi-links.html more Midis
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Graphics/Web/Free/Backgrounds/ Backgrounds multiple lists of resources
http://www.2learn.ca/evaluating/div4netscheck2.html Evaluating Web Sites http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Graphics/Web/Free/Backgrounds/ Backgrounds multiple lists of resources
http://www.indiana.edu/~w210/soundinweb.html Inserting video & sound into FP
http://www.indiana.edu/~w210/phshpopacity.html creating watermarks
http://animatedgif.net/  free animated graphics

Misc. Ed. Technology Sites
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/constructivism.html Constructivism
http://viking.coe.uh.edu/~ichen/ebook/et-it/cognitiv.htm Constructivism
http://viking.coe.uh.edu/~ichen/ebook/et-it/social.htm Social Constructivism
http://www.gsn.org/web/pbl/pblintro.htm  Problem Based Learning (PBL)
 http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php Create RUBRICS for your PBL activities
http://www.idecorp.com/  Innovative Designs for Education
http://www.lotilounge.com/ Levels of Technology Implementation in the Curriculum
http://www.thinkquest.org/  A Library of Educational WebQuests
http://www.nj.gov/njded/techno/  NJ Dept of Ed. section on Technology
http://www.anovember.com/  Alan November an outstanding Educational Technology Consultant web site
http://enc.org/topics/edtech/http://www.k12science.org/
http://www.mff.org/edtech
http://www.knowledgebox.com/  educational software from Pearson Digital
http://cnets.iste.org/  ISTE site
 

Ed Tech & Student Achievement:
http://www.apple.com/education/research/ 
http://teach.fcps.net/dta/student_impact.htm
http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2004/02/02132004.html

Problem Based Learning
An instructional method that uses complex, real-life problems (which usually become projects) to motivate learning and provide learning
experiences: the projects are authentic, yet adhere to a curricular framework.  Project-based learning is a model for classroom activity
that shifts away from the classroom practices of short, isolated, teacher-centered lessons and instead emphasizes learning activities that
are long-term, inter-disciplinary, student-centered, and integrated with real world practices.
www.gsn.org/web  A Tutorial for Collaborative Project-Based Learning
http://pblchecklist.4teachers.org/  A Checklist for PBL Projects 
www.iearn.org/projects/index.html  Sample Projects
www.coollessons.org/coolunits.htm Sample PBL Lessons

JR James
Last update: 07/18/2007